Posted on 09/07/2017 1:18:03 PM PDT by Ken H
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill has requested the FBI’s assistance in the investigation into the arrest of a Utah nurse who refused to allow a blood draw from an unconscious patient without following proper procedure.
In a statement released Thursday, Gill said his office officially requested the FBI investigate: “any and all individuals involved in the chain of conduct arising from the incident at the University of Utah Hospital on July 26, 2017 for any Civil Rights Violations under the color of authority.”
Gill said he requested the FBI’s help due to events beyond a mere criminal investigation.
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A badly worded article. It makes seem as if Nurse Wubbel did not follow the correct procedure.
Probably trying to stick it to the nurse somehow.
These days skepticism reins supreme
Bottom line, the Feds will own both police forces whe this is over.
I don’t see anything in the article or letter indicating they are going after the nurse.
More trying to turn the nurse from victim to criminal? How about law enforcement being charged, fired, hopefully convicted, and jailed. Seems egregious what they did.
Officer Payne is probably looking at a Federal charge of kidnap under color of authority - 18 U.S. Code § 242.
That’s going to be some serious Federal prison time for that jerk.
Good.
It appears the SLC DA has turned on the cop who arrested the nurse.
Nope, my read is that the DA doesn't want to antagonize the local police force (they are his witnesses in every case), so he is turning the case against the cops over to the DOJ.
Or, could be that the scope of the problem is considerably wider than it appeared from just the arrest of nurse Alex Wubbels. I’ve said all along that Officer Payne appeared to have done that before, he was accustomed to medical professionals knuckling under.
“Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill has requested the FBI’s assistance in the investigation into the arrest of a Utah nurse who refused to allow a blood draw from an unconscious patient without following proper procedure.” Who is not following proper procedure? The person making the the arrest, or the nurse. You cannot tell.
Did you read the letter the DA sent to the feds? If the DA does not want to “antagonize” the local cops, as you suggested, they sure have an odd way to showing it.
It is clear, she refused to allow a blood draw from an unconscious patient without following procedure.
I believe the SL County DA thinks he won’t get a proper investigation unless the FBI does it and rightfully so.
Det Payne and some of the others should be very nervous.
I think this means the DA does not trust those officers hiding the truth behind the ‘thin blue line’.
The ‘Mays’ case has taught police to lie whenever they want to without being penalized.
In my home town a detective fabricated a statement to try and trick a suspect. The cop never got a chance to use the fabricated ‘evidence’ and placed it into the case file. Months later in court the detective testified the document was real, having forgotten his attempt to trick the defendant.
The deception was discovered by the deference lawyer and what was the penalty for lying on the stand and evidence fabrication?
Nothing, no penalty...at all.
The police said it was a ‘honest mistake’.
Police will ALWAYS do whatever they can, including lying to protect their ‘fellow officers’...even when they commit crimes.
anyone in the chain of authority... in other words, much more than just the cop who arrested the nurse, and more than the cops who stood by and did nothing. They may be going after whomever was possibly trying to cover up the consequences of the police chase by blaming the victims. THAT individual needs to be removed, whatever level they are.
You’re interpreting the quote incorrectly. Read it again.
You are not reading the statement correctly.
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